# Hack

Skill · Cybersecurity

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/hack

In tech culture, a 'hack' refers to a clever, often improvised solution to a technical problem, or more broadly to unauthorized access to computer systems. The term also describes life hacks (practical shortcuts for everyday tasks) and is central to hacker culture, where it can carry either a playful, ingenuity-focused connotation or a security-breach connotation depending on context.

Related skills: [Penetration Testing](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/penetration-testing), [Ethical Hacking](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/ethical-hacking)

## Open roles requiring Hack (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.